The statistics put the Met at the bottom of all 43 police forces in the country on victim satisfaction.

“We need to improve how we treat victims,” admitted Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne. “We can’t promise we’ll solve more cases by visiting them, but we’ll be able to better meet their needs.”

Now the Met’s response policy gives all victims the choice of reporting crime by phone, at a police station or a home appointment—even for bike theft or breaking into cars.

The Met’s own figure of just 74 per cent of victims satisfied with police response ranked it 43rd out of 43 forces nationally.

The London Assembly’s Police & Crime committee chair Joanne McCartney said: “We raised the Met’s poor performance in dealing with victims in March and will now be examining how the Met responds to people affected by crime.”

The number of appointments for officers to go to victims’ homes has gone up by 55 per cent since a new response scheme began on May 21.

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